CALIFORNIA
The Mercury News
May 13, 2019
By John Woolfolk
California dioceses could face new legal woes but abuse may fall outside statute of limitations
The California Attorney General’s recent inquiry into how the state’s Roman Catholic dioceses complied with laws requiring them to report child sex abuse threatens new legal woes for a church still struggling to confront its sex abuse scandal.
But experts warn, if Pennsylvania’s groundbreaking grand jury report on church abuse is any guide, new revelations from the California probe may be too old to bring criminal charges.
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